Let’s say a land wanted to make burglary illegal. They notice that a lot of people who do breaking and entering wear shoes when doing so. So they make wearing shoes illegal.
That’s sort of how many EU laws are.
I’m getting a li’l frustrated with how my particular headphones and DAC and app combo I can’t hear anything except at the highest volumes. But every once in a while the audio will cut out entirely and I have to fish out the LP3 from deep inside the bag and fiddle with the volumes and up pops the legally mandated volume warning dialog. This is really frustrating and also pretty dangerous if it happens when I’m outside. I don’t want to stop and fiddle with this stuff on the sidewalk or an escalator. I get that it’s well-intentioned to not have people blast their own ears off but the phone can’t know the decibels from a particular DAC/headphone combo so this isn’t really a vector of regulation that works in real life.
There’s also the whole “Do you love cookies? yes/sure/yep/legitimate/accept” click maze on websites. They should’ve made tracking ads illegal instead. This is an even better example than the headphone thing since here they didn’t even criminalize the end. It’s as if in the burglary analogy, they only criminalized the shoes, not the actual theft.
This is also the problem with “Chat Control”. Unlike some very frustrating and self-foot-shooting and frankly gross and horrific anti-Chat-Control ad campaigns here in Sweden, I don’t have a problem with the EU going after abusers. I’m glad that those ends are criminalized. CSAM is actually bad as much as that might come as news to some. I only have a problem with how they do it, by undermining all e2ee which is only enforcable through super dubious methods.